One Pot Sausage Rigatoni

This One Pot Sausage Rigatoni is a cozy and comforting meal made from Italian sausage and rigatoni in a rich creamy tomato sauce. All made in one pot for minimum mess and easy cleanup.

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Creamy Sausage Rigatoni

Every busy person loves a good one-pot meal! Everything in this recipe cooks in one pot making clean up so much easier. Not only is this a great clean recipe but it is also a delicious recipe, I mean no one can resist sausage and pasta in a creamy tomato sauce.

Once you have your big pot on the stove (a dutch oven works best) it is as simple as adding and cooking sausage, then the aromatics, and then adding the rigatoni, tomatoes, and water. This all cooks together and then the cream and spinach is added at the end! The best part is it only takes about 30 minutes to make!

Ingredients

• Ground Italian Sausage – This can be sweet, mild, or hot flavored Italian sausage. Whatever works best for whoever you are serving.
• Yellow Onion – A diced yellow onion provides a nice flavor and sweetness to the sauce.
• Garlic Cloves – For flavor, using freshly minced garlic will give you the best flavor.
• Dried Basil – Also for flavor, you could also use other Italian seasonings in its place or Italian Seasoning itself.
• Kosher Salt – You will want to add some as you are cooking, you can always double check at the end to see if you would like to add more salt.
• Kitchen Ready Ground Peeled Tomatoes – This particualar kind of canned tomato is most commonly sold by Pastene brand and is sold at most major grocery retailers. If you can’t find it just use crushed tomatoes in its place.
• Rigatoni Pasta – This recipe was specifically made with rigatoni pasta in mind, you can use other similar sized pasta like penne.
• Heavy Cream – This gives the sauce its creamy flavor.
• Baby Spinach – While fresh will work best you can use chopped frozen spinach in a pinch.

Instructions

Heat a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the Italian sausage to the hot pot and crumble while cooking. Cook 4 to 5 minutes until some pink still remains.

Add the diced onions to the pot. Mix together with the sausage cooking 3 to 4 minutes until the onions soften slightly.

Add the minced garlic, dried basil, and salt to the pot. Mix and let cook 1 minute for the garlic to become fragrant.

Add the can of tomatoes, the rigatoni, and the water to the pot and mix well. Let cook 13-15 minutes, stirring every few minutes. If the liquid in the pot seems really low but the pasta still needs longer to cook add an additional 1/2 cup of water and let it continue to cook.

Once the rigatoni is al dente add the heavy cream and mix to combine. Then add all the spinach, slowly mix the spinach as it wilts down. Once all the spinach is wilted you can remove the pot from the heat. Serve immediately, feel free to garnish with fresh basil and parmesan cheese.

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